DEFINITION
PUG:
• (v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
• (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread
with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening
sound. See Pugging, 2.
• (n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
• (n.) A pug mill.
• (n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
• (n.) A name for a monkey.
• (n.) A name for a fox.
• (n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
• (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
• (n.) A prostitute.
• (n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head;
a pug dog.
• (n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.